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[Pub quiz] Americana: See the USA

16-August-09 / James Callan

Featured as round 1 at the Old Pequliar on July 7, 2009

1) Get a look at the Transamerica Pyramid, drive the “crookedest street in the world,” and eat dessert in Ghirardelli Square in what city?

2) Tour the Molly Brown House Museum, Coors Brewery, and a branch of the US mint in what city?

3) To take in the Tech Museum, tour the Winchester Mystery House, and see the original state capitol of California, you need to go where?

4) SEE the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Historical Site! The original Erie Canal Harbor! And Niagara Falls! All when you visit what city?

5) You can catch a live show at First Avenue and 7th Street Entry, stop by the largest literary and book arts center in the US, and watch the North Star Roller Girls tear up the track in what city?

6) Where should you go to tour the World War II destroyer USS Kidd, visit the Shaw Center for the Arts, and see the tallest state capitol building in the US?

7) If you’ve toured historic Quapaw Quarter, see the Central High School National Historical Site, and stroll along President Clinton Avenue, where have you been?

8) If you want to see the Sedgwick County Zoo, the original Pizza Hut, and the birthplace of Cessna, were do you need to go?

9) If you want visit the western edge of the Great Basin to attend a hot air balloon race and see the birthplace of Harrah’s Entertainment, what city is your best bet?

10) Visit the Hayden Planetarium, the International Center of Photography, and Grant’s Tomb in what city?

ANSWERS (no peeking)

2007 in Seattle in Review

9-January-08 / James Callan

1) In July, Boeing held a rollout ceremony for their new 787 jet. What’s the 787’s non-numeric name?
2) Dave Bazan, J. Tillman, and Robin Pecknold played the last-ever show at what legendary venue?
3) On April 16, what two local institutions buried the hatchet, avoided a court trial, and announced an end to a long-standing dispute?
4) Audio Day Dream was the debut album by what nationally known musical artist from Bothell?
5) For a few days after the Olympic Sculpture Park opened, a sign told people they couldn’t do what to the sculpture Typewriter Eraser, Scale X?
6) In September, Kapow! Coffee started a booming business selling what non-food-or-beverage?
7) Because it prompted so many building evacuations, the city threatened to ban what in all civic buildings?
8) In July, King County voted to ban what from all county restaurants, starting August 1 this year?
9) After 2 years on top, Seattle was knocked down to the second-most-literate city in America in 2007, losing the crown to what midwest city?
10) Who owns the top four floors of the new Seattle Art Museum building?

Quiz: Geography

4-April-07 / James Callan

1) The girl from Ipanema was from a neighborhood in what city?
2) What is the largest city in the United States named after a place in Africa?
3) The capitol of the Incan empire was located in what present-day country?
4) 16% of Alaskans claim Native American or Alaska Native ancestry. At 10.2%, what state has the second-largest Native American population per capita?
5) In the year 1900, what national capital was the most populous city on earth?
6) Which of these cities is the highest above sea level: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Banff, Canada; Berne, Switzerland; or La Paz, Bolivia?
7) Lake Gatun, at one time the world’s largest artificial lake, was formed during construction of what engineering project?
8) The Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara connect the Mediterranean to what body of water?
9) What state has the shortest distance between its capital city and its most populous city? (Must be two separate cities, distance between city centers as the crow flies.)
10) What city in the Seattle metropolitan area is the most populous in Washington that doesn’t have a population of 100,000?
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